Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-18
DoUBTERs AND THEIR DOUBTS.

There are a few citizens who look upon
the proposition to settle up suburban Sac
ramento with doubt. This was expect
ed. These gentlemen fear that land-own-
ers will not subdivide. Landowners, like
Other men, will do that which conserves
their best interests; no one wishes them to
subdivide without reaping benefit by rea-
son of it.
But what guaranty has a man, after
surveying and reserving avenues and roads
and providing lots fer schools, etc, that he
will be able to dispose of the small tracts :?
May it not turn out that he will be able
TO sell only one here and another there,
and have all the others left on his hands,
and his land be thus discovered to its
injury"
No. Subdividing will injure no suburban
tract, since nearly all settlement is now by
colonies, and there need be no actual seq
regation until colonies form, or until
syndicates organize to take the lands.
Every subtract sold enhances the value of
the remainder so greatly as to eliminate all
the Inconvenience possible from nom
disposal at once of all the lesser parts.
But what assurance has any one that
the small tracts will be taken at all ?'
Well, what assurance has any one of
life tomorrow? But organization, deter
mination to succeed, backed by the splen-
did facilities we have, will give all the
assurance any man could ask for suburban
settlement.
There are half dozen points on the
very borders of this city, and along present
lines of railway, where there are from 200
TO 800 acres Of land, the refusal of which
could be secured by associations of citizens,
who do not need to put up so much as
thousand dollars of capital each, to colo
nize the tracts with men who want small
holdings Of suburban lands. The
chief thing needed is energy, good man
agement and quick, cheap and frequent
transportation, and this latter will follow
the effort indicated as surely as water flows
downward.
The city's suburban lands on the east
are completely surrounded by lines of
railway that will furnish the needed trans
portatien the moment the scheme of set
Ting the region is put upon its feet. The
whole suburban region southeasterly from
the city, rich in every attribute of fine
soil and perfect climate, can be tapped by
lines of street railway, and along their
courses will grow up under the subdivision
system a new residence Sacramento.
But there must be back of all this move
ment genuine public spirit, unselfshness
and disposition to benefit the city and its
business, rather than to make the new Or
CARNATIONS great money-making institu-
tons for their projectors. If the schemes
are entered into with the idea of fortune
making out of hOme-seekers, they will and
ought to fail. They should and will re-
ward their promoters, and that they will.
everyone expects and wishes but the
greater reward is to come from the en-
HANGED Importance Of the city of Sacra-
mento and every material interest n it.
As a final requisite, there must disap-
pear utterly the pernicious habit of be-
lifting our own and competing with
each other. Nothing so surely and quickly
disgusts home-seeker as to find rival
claimants for his favor running each
others offers down." to use a common but
expressive phrase. The way to boom y
section is for everyone concerned in it to
speak well of all in it, and to favor every
legitimate offer made to invite settlement.